Woodslane | Book - 9781442260597

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ISBN-13: 9781442260597
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
By David McBride, Series edited by Jacqueline M. Moore, Series edited by Nina Mjagkij
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Local release date: 14/10/2018
Format: Hardback 208 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Popular medicine & health [VFD]

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Google Preview: African Americans today continue to suffer disproportionately from heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems. In Caring for Equality David McBride chronicles the struggle by African Americans and their white allies to improve poor black health conditions as well as inadequate medical care-caused by slavery, racism, and discrimination-since the arrival of African slaves in America. Black American health progress resulted from the steady influence of what David McBride calls the health equality ideal: the principle that health of black Americans could and should be equal to that of whites and other Americans. Including a timeline, selected primary sources, and an extensive bibliographic essay, McBride's book provides a superb starting point for students and readers who want to explore in greater depth this important and understudied topic in African American history.; Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Slavery and the Medical Roots: Africa and the New World Chapter 2: Battling For Life in the Civil War and Nadir Eras Chapter 3: The Black Medical World: Great Migration to New Deal Chapter 4: Civil Rights, Health Rights Chapter 5: War on Poverty and the 'Medical Ghetto' Chapter 6: Confronting the Black Health Crisis Chapter 7: The Aids Era and the Time of Katrina Bibliography Chronology Documents; Google Preview content